That's awesome! Thanks for the update!

Not in theory but, there are federal laws preventing a politician from holding more than one office at a time. Furthermore, some of the decisions made might limit Congress. Calls of foul play would occur if a minority leader were allowed to be a delegate. Leaders will rarely restrict their own power.

My brother got hooked. It took us a while to get him cleaned up. Drug Courts are a novel idea!

Yes, since the Clinton Administration.

Or the boom during Obama's second term right, Bad Bob?

lol

Probably not. :(

In Chicago’s densest concealed-carry neighborhoods, minorities hold the most permits
by Personal Liberty News Desk

“The gangs have their guns; we want ours, too.”

That sentiment, voiced by Otis McDonald — the plaintiff in the lawsuit that reversed Chicago’s ban on handguns — is now echoed in a new analysis of data revealing where holders of concealed-carry permits in the city are most densely concentrated.

The Chicago Sun-Times studied the occurrence of CC permits within each of Illinois’ ZIP codes, and found that the heaviest concentration of permitted gun owners resided in some of the Chicago’s most racially diverse neighborhoods.

“Chicago’s highest concentration of permits is in the 60617 ZIP code — in the East Side neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side — with 538 permits,” The Times found. “According to the census, about 55 percent of the residents in 60617 are black, 34 percent are Hispanic and 7 percent white.”

That finding appears to confirm what McDonald (who died last year at age 80) had been saying all along.

“This is what Otis McDonald was telling us before he passed away,” NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde told the Times. “People in his neighborhood and others were hungry for this but were denied by the political class.”

The Mainstream Media has been in a downward spiral with younger generations for years now. This especially applies to the liberal media. Part of this is because of the advent social media and alternative media. The largest part though is the loss of credibility. You may think this started with Trump but, it started a lot sooner than that. Here's where it started:

2008: President Obama is elected, not because of the Mainstream Media but, because of social media. The Mainstream Media realized this too late and found themselves with a seriously reduced seat at the "News table" given to them at the Obama Administration's forbearance. Many journalists complain of drastically reduced access to the White House far less than the access they enjoyed during Bush Jr's term.

2008-2014: Criticism of President Obama is close to nonexistent despite consistent executive overreach. This is, in part, due to journalistic fear of race based accusations, ostracization, and political incorrectness. An increased "Denial of Oval Office Access" fear also exists during this period. Fox News is consistently lambasted by President Obama.

2011-2012: Mainstream Media agenda shilling rises dramatically during the e******n cycle. Liberal and Conservative Mainstream Media join forces with the Republican National Committee in order to ensure a universal Ron Paul media blackout. Polls are consistently misread with Ron Paul's popularity percentage given incorrectly or not mentioned at all. On the day of the Republican Primaries, House Minority Leader John Boehner in concert with candidate Mitt Romney and a corrupt Republican Establishment assists with illegally changing the primary rules without a clear majority in order to prevent any delegates from v****g for Ron Paul. Half of the delegates walk out in disgust. (multiple videos of all these things can be found on Youtube)

2015: Mainstream Media agenda shilling reaches an all time high with Obamacare and Same Sex marriage looming in the Supreme Court. Inaccurate Polls find their way on television news and somehow take precedent over more reliable and more accurate polls. Their Shilling hits even higher levels when the Center for Medical Progress releases videos on Planned Parenthood. Even though the CMP releases the unedited videos proving that Planned Parenthood has at least been performing illegal a******n operations designed to get intact fetuses at the risk of the mother's health, the liberal mainstream media ignores that completely and takes Planned Parenthood's side, showing an incredible level of conscience erosion.

2015-2016: Liberal and Conservative Mainstream Media join forces again, this time with the Democratic National Committee, to create a negative spin on Senator Bernie Sanders campaign. False reports of Bernie Sanders rallies occur regularly with two terms consistently used: "violent" and "overwhelmingly white". Shortly before the Democratic primaries, the DNC chair is caught collaborating with several members of the media and Hillary Clinton's campaign, forcing the DNC chair to resign. The is not enough to save Senator Sanders' campaign(this despite three Clinton Campaign restarts) and the Democratic Party begins hemorrhaging v**ers. P**********l Candidate Trump uses the rules the corrupt RNC changed in 2012 overwhelmingly to his advantage throwing the corrupt Republican establishment into disarray. Mitt Romney threatens to throw out the very rules he instituted to get himself elected as the Republican Candidate. Ron Paul v**ers overwhelming v**e for Trump even though his values as a populist are in direct opposition to their values as libertarians.

Early 2016: Republican v**ers s**k of the Republican establishment v**e in Trump as the Republican candidate. Hillary Clinton gets the DNC nomination but, her campaign continues to keep journalists at a large distance hinting at an even more inaccessible White House than Obamas. Trump, like Obama, dominates and focuses on the social media platform but, also loves Mainstream Media attention, positive or negative. This quid pro quo hints at a comeback for the Mainstream Media, should he get elected.

Late 2016:Mainstream Media ignorantly and inaccurately reports on the "Pepe the frog" meme as a right-wing w***e s*********t symbol even though, EVERYONE on the internet for five minutes knows it isn't. Mainstream media shows wildly inaccurate polls of the e******n once again with Hillary Clinton as the e******n's winner. Trump wins the e******n instead causing trust in the Mainstream Media to fall to an all-time new low. Liberal Mainstream media puts out wildly inaccurate theories as to Hillary Clinton's loss. Accusations of r****m persist as the cause even though both candidates are white and Trump's victory would not have happened without the minority v**es for him. Neither of those things are mentioned by the Mainstream Media.

2016-2017: Mainstream Media continues to "freak out" about Trump's e******n. Inaccurate hit pieces on Trump are common place. Media freaks out on several occurring events they attributed to Trump until they discovered that those decisions were made by President Obama before leaving office.

2017: Liberal Mainstream Media inaccurately reports on the "ok" white power hand sign, failing to realizeto realize they were just pranked by 4chan users. They also ignorantly and inaccurately report on the Kekistanis as a w***e s*********t group started by a black man, showing just how stupid and easily prankable "Normie" media truly is.

Extra Notable "NORMIE" Mentions:

Anti-Defamation League calls Pepe the Frog a w***e s*********t symbol
SPLC declares Kekistan group a W***e S*******y group

Apparently, the SPLC, the ADL, and the mainstream media have no idea what the word "research" or "due diligence" means anymore. They are incredibly punk 'able!

Cuban Spies Jubilant with Their Fancy New Base in Washington D.C.
Humberto Fontova

Granted, Obama administration spokespersons and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) describe this week’s event differently than does this column title. Something about a “Cuban embassy” formally “opening?” in “Washington, D.C. ?” If I read these things correctly?

Nonetheless, the people actually in-the-know about these matters are cutting to the heart of the issue:

“All Cuban personnel now working in the [U.S] Interests Section [in Havana] work for Cuban State Security,” said high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Pedro Riera Escalante. “All housing for [U.S.] officials may have microphones and other devices installed.”

"Virtually every member of Cuba's U.N mission is an intelligence agent," revealed Alcibiades Hidalgo, who defected to the U.S. in 2002 after serving as Raul Castro's Chief of Staff and himself as Cuba's ambassador to the U.N.

So you can just imagine what’s going on in Cuban Intelligence’s plush new Washington D.C. station, speaking of which:

“It (the Cuban embassy opening) is going to be a celebration on our part,” gushed Gustavo Machin, deputy director for U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry. “Many Americans who have supported the Cuban Revolution will be among the 500 celebrants at the new Embassy.”

Despite the innocuous professional title the mainstream media insists on using for Gustavo Machin, he’s actually a KGB-trained Cuban spy who was burnt and booted from the U.S. back in 2003 shortly before the invasion of Iraq. He was among 14 other Cuban spies suspected of trafficking in U.S. military secrets (more on this shortly.)

The currently elated Machin was an accomplice of Castro’s master-spy Ana Belen Montes, who today serves a 25 year prison sentence after conviction in 2002 for the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department in modern history. Machin was neck deep in the same spying as his accomplice Montes, but enjoyed “diplomatic immunity,” which saved him from prison or the electric chair.

Now he’ll probably be visiting Washington D.C. often “on business.” In fact it was Machin who conducted the recent “negotiations” with Obama’s team of c*****rjack “negotiators” which led to this “diplomatic breakthrough” with Cuba. So who can blame him for celebrating?

“From Machin’s perspective, it would certainly be a Cuban spy-handler’s dream,” says retired Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons, who helped nab both Montes and Machin along with 14 other Cuban spies and is widely hailed as America’s top Cuba spycatcher. “Hundreds of media, politicians, academics and Castro apologists all in one place at the same time. The DI (Cuba’s Directorio de Intelligencia) staff embedded within the Interests Section/Embassy will certainly be working overtime – I expect they also brought in temporary help within the “30-member delegation of diplomatic, cultural and other leaders” that arrived for the Embassy opening.”

In brief: they don’t come much more knowledgeable about Cuban spying than retired Lieut. Col. Chris Simmons.

“But what’s the big deal, Humberto?” some snort. “I mean, come on! Cuba’s a tiny impoverished island! So you think they’re planning to invade us or something? I mean, get real!” Here’s a common reaction among people pathetically ignorant of Castroism (which is to say, most people.) Indeed, on his Fox Business show John Stossell “rebutted” me in almost those exact words. You see, The Godfather II didn’t mention Castroite spying. So this ignorance is quite understandable.

Of course Cuba doesn’t plan “to invade the U.S.,” for crying out loud--or probably even to mount terrorist attacks--directly that is. The aforementioned Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes, for instance, was arrested on September 21st 2001. That’s exactly ten days after Al Qaeda demolished the Twin Towers. By then she had been uncovered for a while but, as is customary in such cases, was being monitored to see if her activities would reveal others within her spy network. That monitoring was scheduled to continue for much longer, but her access to U.S. intelligence secrets unrelated to Cuba (mid-east, for instance) demanded she be shut down—and quickly.

Interestingly, just days after the 9-11 terror attack, Castro’s KGB-founded and mentored intelligence mounted a major deception operation attempting to trip-up our investigation into the terrorist culprits, not that most of you ever heard about it from the mainstream media. So here:

“In the six months after the 9/11 attacks,” ran the Miami Herald investigative report, “up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrorism threats. Eventually, all were deemed to be Cuban intelligence agents and collaborators, purveying fabricated information. Two Cuba experts said spies sent by Cuba to the United States were part of a permanent intelligence program to mislead, misinform and identify U.S. spies.”

"Cuba is intelligence trafficker to the world," stresses Chris Simmons. Among many others, the U.S. military secrets stolen by Castro’s spies have been sold to former regimes in Iraq, Panama and Grenada, alerting these dictatorships to U.S. military plans against them and costing untold American lives.”

"We are going to have diplomatic relations with the United States without having ceded one iota," guffawed yet another convicted Cuban spy this week.

This KGB-trained Cuban spy is also safely and comfortably back in Havana. But Gerardo Hernandez (this Cuban spy’s name) didn’t enjoy diplomatic immunity. Instead, back in 2001 he was convicted by a U.S. jury of espionage along with conspiracy to murder three U.S. citizens and sentenced to two life terms.

But Hernandez’ KGB-trained colleague Gustavo Machin made Hernandez’ unconditional release (along with that of three of his convicted Cuban spy-colleagues) part of the price Obama had to pay for the privilege of letting Cuba set up an elaborate spy center in Washington D.C. this week.

No, amigos, the producers and writers of The Pink Panther and Austin Powers brainstorming together could not possibly make this stuff up.

Most liberals say they are pro-choice. They say a woman should have the right to choose whether to abort her unborn infant or not. They say this because they know that it can be hard raising an unexpected child. They believe that every woman in America should have that choice. But, what happens when a******n becomes the only choice? Some would say that would never happen in the US but, for New York City's black women, it already has.

New York City has the highest a******n rate in the country. In 2012 alone, more black infants were aborted in New York City than were born. In 2013, the CDC reported that NYC had a 60% a******n for every 100 births. 36 percent of those a******ns are African American. The other 64% is comprised of a dozen other ethnicities. That's three times the national average! That alone is shocking enough but, the rest of the statistics make those numbers seem like the tip of the iceberg. Only 13.3% of the entire population is African American!

Why are so many of NYC's black mothers aborting their babies?! Two of the biggest answers is poverty and the tragic dissolution of the black family. When more black mothers would rather abort than raise a child in NYC, there's a serious problem. They increasingly see raising a child there as impossible. If the state went through and k**led more than 50% of all babies of a single ethnicity, the U.N. would declare it genocide. This is self genocide, and it happened once before in Hispaniola. When Christopher Columbus landed there in 1492, there were as many as 1 million Taino Indians living there. The Spanish ens***ed them and forced them to harsh labor and enforced poverty under the ecomienda system. Shortly after their ens***ement, the Tainos stopped having babies. By 1519, there were only 9,500 Tainos left on the island. This isn't what's happening with the black mothers of NYC but, the poverty of both groups is similar.

Being Pro-choice means that you support both choices but, there has to be two viable choices in order to be pro-choice. Otherwise, it's just pro-a******n. We need to make sure that the black mothers of New York City have two viable choices. No population would voluntary eliminate more than 50% of their own. a 50%+ black a******n rate sounds like an extreme right r****t fairy tale. That it's occurring in New York City is atrocious.

No liberal should be supporting such a high ethnic a******n rate. The fact that this issue has been largely ignored by the media is precisely because, NYC is a Democratically run city but, if liberals won't address the issue first, Republicans will, and if they take the reigns on this, there's no telling where they'll go with it. We need to provide the solution first and quickly. When does a******n stop being a right? When it's the only viable option.

Congress, Trump and Governor Eviscerate the Bill of Rights
By Bob Barr

Politicians on ALL sides treat our founding document like it's toilet paper...

On a daily basis, government officials at all levels make decisions and take steps that are, to put it mildly, without basis in our Constitution, or are in direct contravention of that magnificent document. As bad as these actions are, most citizens do not consider them fundamental or f**grant abuses of the Constitution (though they should). Most Americans still believe that the government operates in their best interests and according to the terms of the Constitution.

The government likes it that way. But, as we have seen just recently, it is merely a lack of opportunity, not desire, holding government back. Unfortunately, such opportunities are always one “emergency” away.

In advance of Hurricane Irma, U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp issued an order that the territory’s National Guard is “authorized and directed to seize arms, ammunitions, explosives, incendiary material and any other property that may be required by the military forces” (emphasis added). Presumably, the edict was predicated on the need to maintain order and safety of USVI citizens within lawful bounds. But that is not what it said.

The shocking order was reminiscent of one issued in 2005 by New Orleans officials in the days following Hurricane Katrina, confiscating private firearms from citizens (in many instances, forcibly) who remained in their homes to protect themselves and their property from l**ters. “No one will be able to be armed,” New Orleans Police Chief Edwin Compass told the Washington Post at the time. “Guns will be taken. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns.”

But unlike New Orleans’ unconstitutional order, Mapp’s goes even further, calling for the seizure not just of firearms but of “any other property.” What does that mean? Conceivably anything the National Guard wants – food, money, cars, houses. The sheer scope of the order is breathtaking, as are its constitutional implications; violating not just the Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, but the Third as well – one thought perhaps least likely ever to be relevant under a modern government. It very well could be one of the most constitutionally egregious government orders issued since British rule. But, hey, it is an emergency, right?

Once the order became public, the governor tried to backtrack on his brazen edict, claiming weakly that — despite the clear and unambiguous wording of the document — it was meant only to enable the National Guard to purchase items it needed, not “seize” them from private citizens. But words do matter, and once a door is opened, the government sooner or later is always going to go through it. Precedent has been set.

This is precisely why legislation quietly passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Trump just weeks ago, is cause for similar concern. House Joint Resolution 76, a bill creating a tri-state Washington Metrorail Safety Commission for the D.C.-area did not raise any eyebrows at the time it was presented to Congress. However, buried within the text of the bill is a provision that grants virtually unlimited power to Metro authorities to enter and inspect any private property “near” the area’s Rail System at any time, without warrant or consent. Given both the size of the D.C. Metro system, and government’s penchant for skirting the Fourth Amendment (here, here, here, here, here), the implications are clear — if you live or have a business near a Metro stop, you have no Fourth Amendment protection against police coming into your home or business whenever they feel the need.

This blatant assault on the Bill of Rights garnered a mere five — count ’em, five — v**es against it in the House and none in the “senior” Chamber across the Rotunda. In other words, of the 635 officials in our nation’s Capital in a position to have stopped this outrage (435 House members, 100 senators, and one president), only five cared enough to do so.

If an observer were cynical, he would conclude with a high degree of likelihood that the vast majority of those who v**ed “aye” did so because they did not even take the time to learn the provision was in the legislation. What is even more frightening, however, is the possibility that many of these elected officials consciously v**ed to strip thousands of citizens of metro D.C. of their right to be free from unreasonable government searches, simply because they were convinced by the measure’s proponents that the power was essential to guard against possible terrorist attacks.

We truly have reached the point at which fear — whether from a natural or man-made source — now officially trumps the Bill of Rights; even if that fear is only hypothetical or illusory.

You know the saying "Statistics Don't Lie? Here is the results from the IRS targeting scandal. Obama knew these statistics and yet, continued to pretend this was a phony scandal the entire time. Weird, huh?

The Washington Supreme Court has continually come out with absolutely ridiculous interpretations of law on a regular basis. Sometimes they follow the letter of the law while abusing the spirit of the law, other times they have thrown out both the spirit and letter of the law and acted like thought police. Still other times, they have thrown out the law altogether and decided based on what they think the law should have been. Time and time again, I have wondered if these justices have ever really attended an actual law school. This is just another case of their ridiculousness. Children are not supposed to be held to the same level of accountability as adults. Furthermore, a majority of minors have participated in "sexting" which, a lot of times, tends to include pictures of themselves. I guess, the majority of adolescent minors will now have to be classified as child pornographers.


Minors who take nude pictures of themselves are now pornographers
Jazz ShawPosted at 5:31 pm on September 16, 2017

You might think that the courts could make a distinction between predatory, monstrous criminal behavior and youthful, foolish ignorance. You would, apparently, be wrong.

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The Volokh Conspiracy brings us news of a case out of the state supreme court in Washington which could have alarming implications down the line. After covering some of the previous case law in this area, we hear the results of State v. Gray. In it, a 17 year old boy had used his phone to take pictures of his… well, I’m sure you can guess, and sent them to someone without their consent. The boy is clearly guilty of something, but… distributing child pornography? In the view of Washington State’s highest court, apparently so.

The dissenting justices argued that the statute shouldn’t be read to apply here, because, “when the legislature enacts a statute designed for the protection of one class — here, children depicted in sexually explicit conduct — it shows the legislature’s intent to protect members of that class from criminal liability for their own depiction in such conduct.” The majority disagreed: That principle, the majority suggested, applies only to victims who are working together with (and presumably under the influence of) their victimizers, not to solo offenders such as this.

The case itself involved a 17-year-old sending “an unsolicited picture of his erect penis” to an apparently unwilling recipient, but the logic of the court’s reasoning applies even when the recipient is pleased to receive the photo. The court does say that, “because [Gray] was not a minor sending sexually explicit images to another consenting minor, we decline to analyze such a situation,” but I think that — given the logic of the majority opinion — the analysis would have to end up the same way; nothing in the majority’s reasoning turns on the presence of an unwilling recipient.

Unlike other forms of visual “entertainment” the possession and distribution of child pornography is not covered under free speech and is, beyond question, one of the more damaging, sickening and horrible crimes imaginable. But it’s always been my understanding that the purpose of the laws we have against this vile behavior is to protect the child being victimized. What if the child, through stupidity or poor upbringing, is the one creating the banned content and he or she is the subject of the content? Can a person actually victimize themselves?

It seems that the boy in this case clearly did something wrong. Sending a x-rated picture of himself to an unwitting (apparently adult) recipient surely constitutes some sort of harassment. Perhaps sexual harassment? But that’s a far different class of crime to have on your record than being a child pornographer.

In some ways, this case is reminiscent of the bizarre case of Levar Allen from last year. That one was originally portrayed as a story of r****m due to a massive mistake by Shaun King at the New York Daily News, but it also involved a 17 year old boy and a 16 year old girl, both of whom sent naked pictures and videos of themselves back and forth. The girl was charged under a “sexting” law, but the boy was brought up on child pornography charges.

Again, if the only content being sent is comprised of images of the sender taken by themselves, isn’t some sort of “sexting” charge ( a few degrees down the scale from child porn) a more appropriate way to handle it? This seems needlessly harsh to me.

Revenge of the radical middle: Why Trump isn’t going away

Trump's main v**ers don’t give a whit about corporate tax reform or TPP or the capital gains rate or the fate of Uber, they make a distinction between deserved benefits like Social Security and Medicare and undeserved ones like welfare and food stamps, their patriotism is real and nationalistic and skeptical of foreign entanglement, they wept on 9/11, they want America to be strong, dominant, confident, the America of their youth, their young adulthood, the America of 40 or 30 or even 20 years ago. They do not speak in the cadences or dialect of New York or Washington, their thoughts can be garbled, easily dismissed, or impugned, they are not members of a designated victim group and thus lack moral standing in the eyes of the media, but still they deserve as much attention and sympathy as any of our fellow citizens, still they v**e.

What the radical middle has seen in recent years has not given them reason to be confident in our government, our political system, our legion of politicians clambering up the professional ladder office to office. Two inconclusive wars, a financial crisis, recession, and weak recovery, government failure from Katrina to the TSA to the launch of Obamacare to the federal background check system, an unelected and unaccountable managerial bureaucracy that targets grassroots organizations and makes law through diktat, race r**ts and Ebola and judicial overreach. And through it all, as constant as the northern star, a myopic drive on the part of leaders in both parties to enact a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would incentivize i*****l i*********n and increase legal immigration despite public opposition…

That Trump is not a conservative, nor by any means a mainstream Republican, is not a minus but a plus to the radical middle. These v**ers are culturally right but economically left; they depend on the New Deal and parts of the Great Society, are estranged from the fiscal and monetary agendas of The Economist and Wall Street Journal. What they lack in free market bona fides they make up for in their romantic fantasy of the patriotic tycoon or general, the fixer, the Can Do Man who will cut the baloney and Get Things Done. On social questions their views tend toward the moderate side—Perot was no social conservative, either. What unites them is opposition to elites in government, finance, culture, journalism; their search for a vehicle—whether it’s a political party or an outspoken publicity maven—that will displace the managers and up the professional ladder office to office. Two inconclusive wars, a financial crisis, recession, and weak recovery, government failure from Katrina to the TSA to the launch of Obamacare to the federal background check system, an unelected and unaccountable managerial bureaucracy that targets grassroots organizations and makes law through diktat, race r**ts and Ebola and judicial overreach. And through it all, as constant as the northern star, a myopic drive on the part of leaders in both parties to enact a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would incentivize i*****l i*********n and increase legal immigration despite public opposition…

That Trump is not a conservative, nor by any means a mainstream Republican, is not a minus but a plus to the radical middle. These v**ers are culturally right but economically left; they depend on the New Deal and parts of the Great Society, are estranged from the fiscal and monetary agendas of The Economist and Wall Street Journal. What they lack in free market bona fides they make up for in their romantic fantasy of the patriotic tycoon or general, the fixer, the Can Do Man who will cut the baloney and Get Things Done. On social questions their views tend toward the moderate side—Perot was no social conservative, either. What unites them is opposition to elites in government, finance, culture, journalism; their search for a vehicle—whether it’s a political party or an outspoken publicity maven—that will displace the managers and technocrats and restore the America of old.

Conservatives and some Trump v**ers may be upset by Trump's DACA move but, Trump is a populist: Socially conservative, economically liberal. His move falls directly in line with his own principles. Should Trump have spoken with Republicans before throwing such a bone to the Democrats? Probably. Was this move a good idea? Yes. Democrats were becoming increasingly bitter and hostile: to the point that a Democratic state Senator was openly supporting the assassination of Trump. Trump accomplished three things with this act: he held out an olive branch to Democrats thereby ensuring that Washington DC would finally start getting things accomplished, he showed Democrats that he's their President too and that working with him will get some of their goals accomplished as well, and he made a move that pulled him out of Obama's shadow. Democrats and the Media have compared every action he has made to Obama's actions. However, Obama failed to hold out an olive branch to Republicans until almost 7 years into his term(TPP). That refusal to hold out an olive branch or work with Congress did more to bring our government to a stand still than any other p**********l term in recent history. It also ended up costing more Democrats their congressional seats than any other president in decades. Trump held out an olive branch close to the beginning. This was a genius move and one America badly needed. It will be interesting to see how things turn out from here. The last four years of Obama's term until now has been pretty scary for both sides. From the left, we saw SJWs and Progressives snuffing out and silencing any opposing or diverse opinion, ideal, or belief. That intolerance was becoming increasingly dangerous for our freedoms, and was actually a type of ignorant bigotry and hypocrisy on a grand scale. From the right, since Trump's e******n, we've seen some extremist r****t groups coming out of the woodwork, not because of Trump specifically but, because, they believe they have a president who supports their right to free speech. (Note to Kekistanis: I'm not referring to any of you nor am I referring to the non-r****t "Heritage not H**e" groups who protested against the removal of the Confederate statues.) The way to actually end the r****m isn't to tear down a statue that most have never given a second thought to until some i***t made a comment that statues create r****m somehow. The real way to end r****m is to talk to the r****ts and end their ignorance.